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Fury

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

This is a tense and gritty movie about an American Sherman tank crew in the waning days of WW2. There have not been very many movies about tank combat since Humphrey Bogart's pretty good Sahara in 1943 but Fury maybe the top of the list. Brad Pitt is a harden no nonsense veteran who leads his tough talking crew with a fresh faced rookie from the clerical pool trying to fit into their tough company. The movie is candid in that combat is merciless and unforgiving to soldiers and innocent civilians also no quarter is given to certain SS enemy combatants. The vast superiority of German tanks over Allied is clearly illustrated here and it would take losing 3 Shermans to defeat one Tiger tank. The only slightly unrealistic moment happens in the ending firefight where the elite German SS units can't hit the side of a barn.

Quotes

Norman Ellison: I've never even seen the inside of a tank. I'm a clerk typist. Was heading to Fifth Corps HQ, and they pulled me off the truck. They sent me here. It's gotta be a mistake.
Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Mistake? Army don't make mistakes. It wouldn't do.
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Norman: I'm sorry. Okay, l am trained to type 60 words a minute. I am not trained to machine-gun dead bodies. I am trying my very best.

Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Here's a Bible verse I think about sometimes. Manytimes. It goes: And I heard the voice of Lord saying: Whom shall I send and who will go for Us? And... I said: Here am I , send me!
Norman Ellison: [Mumbling] Send me.
Wardaddy: Book of Isaiah, Chapter six.

Wardaddy: Hey, you want to talk Mexican? Join another tank, a Mexican tank. This is an American tank, we talk American.

Irma: Where are you going?
Wardaddy: To take the next town. And the next one. Until you people quit.